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N.Y.C. Landlords Flout Rent Limits — But Still Rake In Lucrative Tax Breaks
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun As gleaming new housing towers spring up around New York City, thousands of new rent-stabilized apartments are coming onto the market. And in return for...
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Landlords Fail To List 50,000 N.Y.C. Apartments for Rent Limits
by Cezary Podkul and Marcelo Rochabrun In late August, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and other top New York officials announced an unusual crackdown on landlords. Nearly 200 building owners were collecting big...
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Department of Education Demands Greater Accountability from College Accreditors
by Annie Waldman The U.S. Department of Education announced new transparency measures for college accreditors today, encouraging the organizations to focus more on student outcomes such as graduation...
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Five Journalists Murdered. Zero Arrested. (MuckReads Weekly)
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Telecoms, Manufacturers Delaying Critical Patches for Classified Military...
by Jeff Larson This story was co-published with the Daily Beast. You would think the nation’s military would move with lightning speed to patch cell phones vulnerable to hackers, particularly after...
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Own a Vizio Smart TV? It’s Watching You
by Julia Angwin TV makers are constantly crowing about the tricks their smart TVs can do. But one of the most popular brands has a feature that it’s not advertising: Vizio’s Smart TVs track your...
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How 5 Florida Schools Ended Integration and Became Among Worst in State
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} In its ongoing Failure Factories series, the Tampa Bay Times is investigating the disastrous...
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How Russia Hid Its Doping in Plain Sight
by David Epstein On Monday, the World Anti-Doping Agency issued a report painting Russia’s sports programs as doping machines reminiscent of East Germany’s erstwhile state-sponsored drug programs....
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Decades After Disappearing From Australia, a CIA-Linked Fugitive is Found in...
by Raymond Bonner, special to ProPublica, This story was co-published with the Daily Beast. It was one of the greatest disappearing acts of modern times. Amidst a swirl of allegations and rumors that...
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How Do Congressional Representatives Vote, Anyway?
by Derek Willis Voting in the House has not changed much since an electronic voting system was first used on January 23, 1973, with the goal of making voting periods shorter. The latest version of the...
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The Dog Ate My Vote: How Congress Explains Its Absences
by Derek Willis and Cecilia Reyes On a Monday afternoon in October 2011, West Virginia Democrat Nick J. Rahall II waited at the Charleston airport for a 4:50 p.m. U.S. Airways Express flight to...
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5 Things We Learned Collecting 3,352 Stories About Agent Orange Exposure
by Terry Parris Jr. h1 { font-size: 2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:.5em; } img { display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; border: 1em; } It’s not the size of the community that...
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Hillary Clinton’s Mixed Record on Wall Street Belies Her Tough ‘Cut it Out’ Talk
by Jeff Gerth This story was co-published with The Daily Beast. During the Democratic debate last month, Hillary Clinton assured viewers she would be a president at least as tough on Wall Street as...
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Our Reading List for the Supreme Court’s Texas Abortion Case
by Nina Martin Update, Nov. 13, 2015: This list has been updated with an additional reading suggestion. The U.S. Supreme Court today accepted what could be its most important abortion case in a...
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The ‘Costco Warehouse of Narcotics’, Predictive Policing and More (MuckReads...
by Adam Harris h3 { font-size:1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-top:1.4em; } blockquote { line-height: 1.5em; } Some of the best #MuckReads we read this week. Want to receive these by email? Sign up...
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Terror in Little Saigon: An Objection and a Response
Frontline’s film, “Terror in Little Saigon,” and the accompanying ProPublica article, revisited a painful chapter in the Vietnamese-American experience. Since publication, we have heard from many...
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New Film, ‘A Day’s Work,’ Highlights Dangers of the Temp Industry
by Cynthia Gordy .player_box { display: none; } div.article-inline-image.Right.demobbed {display: none;} Ninety minutes into the first day of his first job, Day Davis, a 21-year-old temp worker, was...
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Interview a Vietnam Veteran With ProPublica and StoryCorps
by Amanda Zamora This summer, ProPublica and our partners at The Virginian-Pilot asked Vietnam-era veterans to help us investigate the generational impact of Agent Orange exposure by sharing their...
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Terror in Paris and Beirut: An ISIS Reading Guide
by Adam Harris On November 13, terrorists hit Paris with a series of coordinated attacks — France's deadliest since World War II. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for...
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Privacy Not Included: Federal Law Lags Behind New Tech
by Charles Ornstein This story was co-published with the Washington Post. Jacqueline Stokes spotted the home paternity test at her local drugstore in Florida and knew she had to try it. She had no...
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